“ CARROTS,”

boy at school when Carrots first joined the
family party, and Cecil and Louise had a
governess. Mott learned with the governess
too, but was always talking of the time when
‘he should go to school with Jack ; for he was
a very boy-ey boy, very much inclined to
look down upon girls in general, and his sis.
ters in particular, and his little sister Floss
in particularest. So, till Carrots appeared on
the scene, Floss had had rather a lonely time
of it; for “of course” Cecil and Louise, who
had pockets in all their frocks, and could play
the “March of the Men of Harlech” as a
duet on the piano, were Jar too big to be
“friends to Floss,” as she called it. They
were friendly and kind in an elder-sisterly
way; but that was quite a different sort of
thing from being “friends to her,” though it
never occurred to Floss to grumble or to
think, as so many little people think nowa-
days, how much better things would have
been arranged if she had had the arranging
of them.

 

      
  
     
   
    
     
     
    
      
      
    
 
   
   
     
 

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